Cybermation Announces ESP Espresso; Innovative Enterprise Job Scheduling Solution Makes the Complex Simple for Today's Businesses.

Business/Technology Editors

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2001

Cybermation Inc., the leading developer of integrated enterprise systems management software, today announced ESP Espresso v1.0, a distributed job scheduling solution that manages workload across all leading enterprise operating systems and ERP platforms. ESP Espresso provides the power, flexibility and ease of use required by data centers today.

ESP Espresso's next-generation XML and JAVA(R) architecture provides scalability and performance, helping data centers meet increased service demands with limited resources. It employs automation disciplines found in best-of-breed mainframe scheduling applications, with an architecture and functionality based on Cybermation's ESP Workload Manager, a foundation of technology and best practices that have been successfully implemented in mission-critical data centers for nearly two decades.

ESP Espresso provides the framework to manage the entire batch workload regardless of processing platform or operating system, including UNIX, Windows NT/2000, IBM OS/400, Open VMS, Tandem NSK and SAP R/3. Utilizing an intuitive graphical user interface, this powerful solution allows users to define, test and implement the most complex cross-platform business applications.

"Cybermation's technology vision is to make the complex simple," stated Ray Nissan, Cybermation's chairman and chief technology architect. "ESP Espresso's enterprise job scheduling and batch workload management solutions are key back-office activities that provide the underpinning to successful e-business initiatives. Like ESP Workload Manager, ESP Espresso offers a high return on investment to help our customers achieve competitive advantage."

About ESP Espresso

Powerful and Flexible

ESP Espresso provides an enterprise-wide, consolidated view of workload and a single point of control for defining, monitoring and controlling workload. It manages the entire job scheduling and workload management business process across all leading enterprise operating systems and ERP platforms, regardless of the number of geographic locations the data center occupies. Its next-generation XML and JAVA architecture provides unparalleled extensibility, scalability and performance, providing a dynamic application platform to provide organizations the speed and flexibility they require to meet changing business conditions. Its platform-independent architecture also provides Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) functionality to allow ESP Espresso to work seamlessly with other applications in the enterprise, meeting a growing requirement within many organizations today.

Easy to Use

ESP Espresso offers a simple and straightforward graphical user interface (GUI) to organize the data center's dynamic heterogeneous production environment. Graphical flow charts and plain-text definitions make schedules and complex dependencies easy to understand. Users can customize views to contain key information to manage by exception and alert key personnel of critical events. ESP Espresso also eliminates the cost and time required for platform-specific training for users and reduces manual intervention in the production workflow. Additionally, it provides an option to view and manipulate the production environment real-time over the Internet using a standard Web browser.

Technical Strength

ESP Espresso is a proven enterprise job scheduling and workload management solution, derived from Cybermation's leading ESP Workload Manager for OS/390 product. Its core engine, first released in 1987, provides the robustness and performance that organizations demand from their mission-critical applications. ESP Espresso provides scheduling flexibility and capacity due to reduced load time for large schedules. Event-driven by design, it loads the schedule only when needed rather than loading all schedules daily. The application also features extensible security with user or group authority to ensure the integrity of all job scheduling automation. Its flexible architecture easily accommodates ad hoc scheduling criteria requirements and features powerful calendar management

ESP Espresso Workstation

ESP Espresso Workstation is an intuitive graphical interface that enables users to quickly drag-and-drop their way through workload definitions, calendar management and monitoring and control of batch workload - all from one single application, regardless of operating system. ESP Espresso Workstation reduces the time needed to take an application from development to production. Developers independently define production-ready schedules simply by drawing a flow chart. It graphically illustrates job relationships, dependencies and critical paths, then highlights and corrects workflow errors, bottlenecks and inefficiencies.

ESP Agents

ESP Agents are compact, event-driven applications that extend batch workload across multiple operating systems , including UNIX(R), Windows NT(R), OS/400(R) and other operating systems, to automatically execute workload and monitor progress to maximize existing IT investments. Cybermation is leveraging its existing ESP Agent technology to provide robust and flexible support on the following platforms:

- Compaq OpenVMS(R)

- Compaq Tru64(R)

- HP HP-UX(R)

- IBM AIX(R)

- IBM OS/390(R)Unix System Services

- IBM OS/400(R)

- NCR SVR4

- PeopleSoft(R)

- Red Hat Linux

- SAP R/3(R)(certified)

- Sequent DYNIX/ptx(R)

- Sun Microsystems Solaris(R)

- Tandem NSK

- Microsoft Windows NT

- Microsoft Windows 2000

ESP Espresso v1.0 will be generally available in July. For more information, contact Cybermation at [phone] or www.cybermation.com.

About Cybermation

Cybermation Inc. is recognized by its many Fortune 500 customers as a leading developer of best-of-breed automation solutions for job scheduling, workload management and software change management for heterogeneous computing environments and for its systems management expertise. The company's products include ESP Workload Manager(R) for enterprise-wide job scheduling and workload management for OS/390(R), UNIX(R), Windows NT(R) and OS/400(R) operating systems as well as for SAP R/3, Oracle and PeopleSoft ERP environments; ESP Espresso, a distributed job scheduling solution that manages workload across all leading enterprise operating systems and ERP platforms; ESP Workstation, the graphical user interface for enterprise scheduling from a single point of control; ESP Encore(R) for automated rerun, restart and recovery; ESP Console Manager(R) for console automation; and Alchemist, a powerful, automated change management system that provides real benefits for both software development and data-center production environments. Cybermation's customers include Hudson's Bay Company, Statistics Canada, and CN Rail in Canada, Allstate Insurance, Nike, Deere & Co. and Verizon in the United States, and One 2 One, Sony Europe, VHV and Janssen Pharmaceutica in Europe. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and has offices throughout the United States, England and Australia.